U.S. and other Western efforts to help China modernize its Air Force may be misguided because they focus on the sale of high-tech weapons and components. Beijing's greatest difficulty in modernizing its Air Force probably is not acquiring advanced weapons, rather it is choosing weapons that China's military can use effectively, maintain, and sustain in combat and that China's industry can produce. Beijing has failed to develop an overall force development model that integrates military needs with industrial capabilities.


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    Title :

    Chinese Air Force: Roadblocks to Modernization


    Contributors:
    J. Wilson (author)

    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    39 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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